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Word: victim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fiery Invader | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Invariably he is told that his intended victim has no office, and that perhaps he should write a letter to the editors. But sometimes he will not be put off, and so I have to explain that I am the very loudmouth he seeks, and that since I have no office I will try to choke down a cup of Bick's coffee with...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

...kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...foil, Mike Klapper won the only bout (over N.Y.U.'s top man) as the Crimson dropped the event, 8 to 1. Peter Boyce was a victim of nausea during his first two losses, and Dick Johnson replaced him in the third round. Captain Hubert Hocutt was winless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Lose, 21-6; Lions' Match Today | 3/2/1957 | See Source »

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